Quirkie Meerkat Jeopardy

January 4 2009 from Jtutton 9:41 pm

Time for answers and scores, I made the font bigger.

100 - who catches CR and MM on Christmas Eve and what do they have to do as a result?

St. Nick and he makes them pull the sleigh. (Santa Claus scored partial credit)

200 - where was CR's birthday par-tay and how old was she?

It was in Banquet Room 23 at the Kalahari Kitty Spa (was looking for the banquet room reference), she was 9

300 - what are the territory boundaries based on?

I should have been more specific, so everyone who answered got half credit. I was looking for what is on the map. Based on use of sleeping burrows.

400 - who did Loyalkat Sophie write odes to (name at least 4)?

Shakes, Tosca, Youssarian, Blossom, Daisy, Mozart, Flower, and Zaphod. Sorry, no Sophie in that bunch.

500 - fill in the blanks "Once you find it, And ___ it, everyone wants it, And then you don't know what to, ____ it�?/FONT> If I had a box just ___ poo, And _____ to bag it for you, The box would be empty, Except for the memory, Of _______ questioning you."

bag, hide, kat, scoop, customs

For a chocoscorpion, who wrote the above, and what is the source (original work)?

Pronker wrote it, based on Time in a bottle by Jim Croce, but I did accept the MSN chat reference.

Scores:

SG - 4:01 pm - 1200 + CS
kathy - 4:04 pm - 1200 + CS
galantfox - 3:15 pm - 1200 +CS
Loving - 5:35 pm - 550
sweetkat - 5:51 pm - 1200 +CS
Loyalkat - 3:01 pm - 1225 +CS - WINNER

Good job everyone

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January 5 2009 from Loyalkat Sophie 9:25 pm

ddddss
Ok time for answers!

For 100: In this episode of MM, Einstein tried to open a turtle egg, but he just couldn't crack it.

What is Iron Lady?

For 200: In the episode "United We Stand," Flower is waiting for these two Meerkats to come home.

Who are Zaphod and Mitch?

For 300: In the episode, "The Enemy within," This Meerkat is left to babysit Flower's pups.

Who is Yossarrian?

For 400: In this episode Mozart evicts this poor female. Name the episode and the evicted Female.

What is Balance of Power and who is Daisy? (Who screams and faints!)

For 500: In the episode, "The Quiet Fields," this Meerkat is first out to check and see if the tawny eagle is gone..

Who is Zaphod?

Scores:

Gallantfox - 700
Meerkat1212 - 700
Kathy - 1500 - Winner
Squirrelly - 900
Balletcat - 700

Congrats Kathy!

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Loyalkat Sophie

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January 6 2008 from Kathyh3 9:24pm

ddddss answer time....

For 100: "Sibling Rivalry". Who are the siblings being referred to?
Punk and Lola Zappa (Sibling Rivalry is aka House of Zappa)

For 200: In "On Dangerous Ground", after Flower finds new foraging ground, which mob appears to reclaim their land?
The Zappa

For 300: Which group ends up with the land?
The Whiskers

For 400: In "The death of Romance", who gets caught fooling with who by whom?
Houdini with Flower by Zaphod

For 500: Name the Zappa pups mentioned in Journey's End and what happened to them.
Axel, Slash and Rose. Slash and Rose were carried off and Axel was left behind and adopted by the Whiskers.

Winner by a hair (3 minutes!) is

Loyalkat Sophie with 1500!
Squirrelly: 1500
Loving Tosca TQ: 700 plus a juicy millipede for 300

I must say that Axel, Slash and Rose are a heck of a lot cuter than their real-life namesakes

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January 7 2009 from Loyalkat Sophie 9:23 pm

ddddss
Time for answers

For 100: What does GPS stand for?

What is Global Positioning System?

For 200: Yossarrian attempted a burrow move. He carried one pup twenty meters from the burrow, left it on the sand and returned underground this Meerkat fetched the pup and carried it back to the burrow

Who is Shakespeare?(Page 178, TCB's book )

For 300:In "Home Alone", This predator was too small to be a serious threat to the Meerkats

What is a Genet?

For 400: All Meerkats in our focal group are weighed on a regular basis using these.

What are electronic scales?

For 500: Meerkats are cooperative breeders. What does this mean?

What is they live in groups where individuals other than the parents of offspring assist in their care?

Scores:

Ratties - 1000 (200 for 400)
Loving - 1500 - Winner
Sweetkat - 1200
Grumpy - 1300
Squirrelly - 1300

Congrats Loving

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January 8 2009 from Loving Tosca 9:24pm

For 100, according to the South African weather service, what was the min & max temperature

and the 24 hour rainfall yesterday, Jan. 7, at Van Zylsrus?

-- min. was 20.4 (C) or 68.2 F; max was 39.2 (C) or 102.5 F; 24 hour rainfall was 0.2 mm,

per http://www.weathersa.co.za/Climate/DailyWxFull.jsp

For 200, Einstein who couldn't crack the egg was named for whom? (name rank and serial number)

-- Einstein Whiskers, VWM052, littermate of Shakespeare, Mozart, and Freud

For 300, which meerkats are these ladies sisters to?

a. Brambles

b. Rapunzel

c. Igraine

-- a. Holly Young Ones Whiskers

-- b. Zaphod & Youssarian Vivian

-- c. Morgause, Lazuli, and Ziziphus Avatar

For 400, why was Mozart angry when she caught Kinkajou grooming Carlos?

-- because only the DF is allowed to groom the DM, according to Pronker

For 500, who were the top 3 rovers in November?

-- Finn MacCool Drie Doring (VDM108), 9 times; Bramley Frisky (VFM127), 8 times; Thor

Drie Doring (VDM114), 4 times

SCORES:

Moominlove, welcome back!!!! Glad you found us here at Yuku.

Ratties - love the meerkat wedding mug!

Player	Post time	Place	Total	' 100	' 200	' 300	' 400	' 500
Moominlove	? 6:38		950	0.5	0.5	0.33	0.5	1	welcome back!
Rattiesrules	6:52		1080	0	0.75	1	0.75	0.66	Mozart is 053
GRUMPY	7:26		1450	0.5	1	1	1	1
Squirrelly	8:31		1450	0.5	1	1	1	1
Jtutton	8:50		1050	0.5	0	1	0.5	1	love your 400
Cordee	8:06		1250	0.5	0	1	1	1
Eruth	6:10		1075	0.75	0	1	0.5	1	love 100

Congrats Grumpy! Where did you all go for your weather data????

Loving Tosca Quirkie

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January 9 2009 from GrumpyQueenOfMoomns 11:16pm

Here are your questions... sorry for being a bit late, the sore throat/cold medicine made me space out

For 100, Describe what happens when "Mitch" spots the Starsky in S3 E2 (The Mission).

What is he sees them, the Starsky give chase, and "Mitch" gets away before they can do any damage?

For 200, If more than __ meerkats poo or pee in the same spot, it is officially considered a latrine.

What is 3?

For 300, List the categories of data included in the group mark sheet

What are Litter, DOB, "Motha," "Who's the daddy?", Code, Name, Actual, Description, Telonics, and Transponder?

For 400, This currently active kat shares her name with her great-great-aunt.

Who is Piglet?

For 500, Bob Newhart made a cameo appearance in a classic MADtv sketch, playing a psychotherapist who gave his patient a very short piece of advice...this short piece of advice is also the name of a KMP kat!

Who is Stop It?

Scoreboard
Ratties - 100
Kathy - 600
Jane - 900
Tosca - 900
Squirrelly - 650 (partial for 300)

Congrats to sister Tarzana! Great game folks...I am off to bed, still feeling yukky but better than the other day.

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January 10 2009 from Jtutton99 9:35pm

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Here is a mix of questions for you all today. 500 will challenge your memory.

100 - If you were to call Tarzanarosanadana while she's at the KRR, what country code would you dial?

027, but I gave credit for 27

200 - what is the latitude/longitude for Van Zylsrus?

26 degrees 58 min S, 21 degrees 49 min E

both from http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/...larg/pages/Volunteer.html

300 - at what stage (weeks after conception) is it easy to identify pregnancy (from the book, please put page number)?

4 weeks, from caption on picture on page 116

400 - name the four main forms of cooperation that meerkats exhibit.

babysitting, cooperative lactating, feeding young, and guarding

500 - on page 80 of the book, there is a picture, who is in that picture?

Belgarion and a pup, Pronker or Evi posted who was in the pics at one time and I put sticky notes on the pages.

Happy digging!

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Scores:

RIP - 750
SG - 500
cordee - 1000 - WINNER!!!!
loving - 550

Good job all, I know 500 was hard, but now we know who it is, don't we?

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